There are many opposing religions in the world, but they all agree on one thing: the human soul is a very great value and cannot just disappear after death. Someone sincerely believes that she is going to heaven or hell, while someone is convinced that soon his soul will be reborn in another body. And judging by the many mysterious stories associated with people's memories of a past life, it is possible that it is so.
Rosemary of Babylon
At the beginning of the 20th century, in the English town of Blackpool, the most ordinary girl was born in the most ordinary family. But soon the parents noticed something strange. The child had barely learned to speak. as stated that her name is Teleka Ventui and she lived earlier in Babylon - already in 1400 BC.
The parents were quite amazed - where did the baby get such fantasies and on what they could be built, because there were no conversations on such topics in the house.
They didn't find anything better than to see a psychiatrist. He turned out to be a rather thoughtful doctor and realized that there was no question of an ordinary mental disorder. He sought help from the British Society for Psychological Research. Leading psychiatrists in the country began to study the strange patient and gave her the pseudonym Rosemary. In the course of research, it turned out that the girl has the ability to speak some ancient dialect in a trance state.
Her attending physician Frederick Wood was amazed that the words did not look like the ravings of a madman, but clearly had some kind of internal logic and consistency. He carefully wrote down several phrases and sent them to the leading English Egyptologist Howard Hulme.
Soon there was a response from the startled scientist, he said that Rosemary's monologues are meaningful phrases containing many concepts characteristic of the life of the Egyptians of the pre-Christian era. “Obviously,” he wrote, “the mind that controls Rosemary has a good understanding of the language and customs of Ancient Egypt under Pharaoh Amenhotep III.”
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Howard Hulme soon came to Blackpool to personally meet with a witness of the era of the pharaohs. The girl accurately answered questions, the answers to which were known only to a handful of Egyptological scientists. Naturally, Halm began to ask the girl about what remained hidden in the mists of time, something that no man in our time knows, and Teleka Ventui revealed to him the secrets of the past … But when Halm spoke at the next scientific meeting and told about Ancient Egypt according to an eyewitness, he was laughed at, especially after the words that the psychiatrist's patient told him the truth …
Canadian viking
Children are generally more likely than adults to provide details of their past lives. According to those. who believe in the transmigration of souls, they simply did not have time to forget the circumstances of the previous incarnation.
A two-year-old boy named Sujit from Sri Lanka had barely begun to speak when he immediately said that his name was Sammy Fernando, he lived in a neighboring village and two years ago died in a car accident. The investigation turned out to be simple - the neighboring village was a stone's throw away, and Sujit's parents went there.
It turned out that the farmer Sammy Fernando really lived in the village and he died shortly before the birth of the boy. For a long time Sujit surprised his parents with details from someone else's life, but by the age of six he had completely forgotten his past.
This is far from an isolated case of "failure" at another time. In 1930, a doctor from New York, Marshall Macduffy, heard that his twin children spoke to each other in some strange language. For a long time he was sure that the kids had just invented this gibberish to communicate with each other, so that the uninitiated would not understand what was at stake.
Once a university teacher, professor of the Department of Ancient Languages came to visit Macduffy. Having accidentally heard the babbling of children, he decided that he was being played. It turned out that the twins communicate with each other in Aramaic!
Sometimes knowledge of extinct languages manifests itself under hypnosis. Once, during a hypnotic session conducted in the United States by Dr. Morris Netherton, an eleven-year-old boy suddenly spoke in an incomprehensible dialect. Later, the hypnosis session was repeated in the presence of university teachers. It turned out that this is an ancient language that was used in the Middle East …
Also in a state of hypnotic trance, a clerk from Canada suddenly remembered how once upon a time he was a Viking and participated in bloody campaigns. But the most interesting thing is that the man, before becoming a Viking, lived in Mesopotamia in 650. In support of his words, the Canadian wrote several phrases in some incomprehensible language. Philologists have determined that this is an adverb sessamid pavlavi, which really existed in ancient times in the East …
Asylum Priest
Naturally, most of the stories about past lives can be found in the archives of psychiatric clinics - and where else can the relatives of a person who claims to have personally seen Cleopatra or Napoleon send. The relatives did the same with the Mexican Juan Sanchez, who often talked about the fact that he was once a priest of a large temple on an island in the Mediterranean Sea.
He reported amazing details about his past life - how he, with the help of various herbs and potions, turned the dead into mummies, placed them in clay sarcophagi and carried them to the temple. According to Juan, the walls of the sanctuaries were decorated with images of birds, dolphins and fish. In the mental hospital, Juan's stories were not particularly listened to. But once in the news, which the attending physician of the Mexican accidentally heard, they said that during excavations on the island of Crete, a necropolis sanctuary was found, filled with sarcophagi with mummies. On its walls, there were many painted birds and dolphins, which, as it turned out, among the ancient Greeks accompanied the souls of the dead to the underworld …
Another case that occurred in a psychiatric clinic entered the annals of medicine. A woman named Louise Kramer was admitted to a Connecticut psychiatric hospital in the 1980s to try to commit suicide. During the treatment, it turned out that the reason for committing suicide was that. that at night she, an ordinary housewife, mother of two children, was carried over to 1877 and became a teacher named Penelope Andrews.
Louise's medical history was published in a medical journal, from where the general public learned about her.
Her physician Arnold S. Brumer wrote: “The phenomenon of simultaneous existence, which manifested itself nine months ago, caused the patient to be deeply depressed. The woman she becomes lives in a gloomy cold house. She has a chronic cough and many other ailments. She teaches sixteen children who come to her from afar, on foot, on country roads. The money paid by the parents of the students makes up her entire modest budget. Louise tried to get rid of the recurring visions from night to night with the help of sleeping pills. Unsuccessfully. And when the help of a psychiatrist did not help, she tried to commit suicide.
We examined her during these visions. The patient, obviously. becomes someone else. Confirms that the President of the United States is Ratford B. Hayes. tells children about the banking crisis of 1873, about the recently adopted Declaration of Human Rights, about the work of Mark Twain: By the way, she really likes his new story "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer". She regrets that she does not have her own copy of this book."
Interestingly, after the publication of this article, the American Historical Society found out that at the end of the 19th century, there really was a teacher named Penelope Andrews. who died in 1882 from consumption …
Victor Nikolaev. Magazine "Secrets of the XX century" No. 14 2010